“[Marcus Smart]’s a player that’s available for a first round pick,” Wojnarowski, who was in Boston for Knicks-Celtics earlier this week, said on his latest podcast. “If a team was willing to give Boston a first-round pick, Boston would look at [trading him], [and] if they didn’t have to take back a lot of money going out in the future. He’s restricted this summer, you don’t know what it will cost to keep him.”

“He’s proven he can help you win a playoff game or two. He doesn’t shoot great from the three-point line, some of the things you want from a guard in this day and age,” Wojnarowski said of Smart, currently on the shelf with a hand injury after a hotel incident. “He defends, he’s super competitive. But they can’t pay everybody in Boston and they’re going to have to make decisions. Does a team want to give up a first for a player when they don’t know what it will cost to keep him? I’m not sure that will happen.

“But I think certainly if [the Celtics] were going to make a move with one of their core guys, there’s potential that it’s going to be Smart.”

The apparent comfort in moving Smart also probably comes back to the sudden emergence of Terry Rozier, who has been nothing short of spectacular in his spot-start appearances for the injured Kyrie Irving, with a triple-double in his first start on Wednesday, and then a career-high 31 points dropped in Friday’s victory over the Hawks.

The 23-year-old Smart, meanwhile, is averaging 10.1 points, 4.7 assists, and 3.6 rebounds per game, and is shooting 35.7 percent from the field this season.

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